"Over to you Lukaku" - United man has as many goals as rival strikers combined

February 19, 2018

During the summer transfer window, there was plenty of talk surrounding the three new strikers who had joined the Premier League.

Alvaro Morata signed for Chelsea, Alexandre Lacazette signed for Arsenal and Romelu Lukaku signed for Manchester United.

Arsenal’s opening game of the season was on a Friday night against Leicester and Lacazette scored after two minutes. The following day, Chelsea lost their first match of the season 3-2 at home to Burnley, but Morata got on the scoresheet.

Social media was filled with plenty of comments about the United striker, with the pressure on him to score. Journalists and rival fans claimed that Morata was the more intelligent player, while Arsenal fans hailed Lacazette’s skilful feet in contrast to Lukaku’s apparently poor first touch.

After 52 minutes of Lukaku’s Premier League debut (forgetting that he had already scored his first United goal against Real Madrid in the Super Cup final), he had two goals to his name.

Fast forward six months and Lukaku now has 21 goals for United, which is as many as Morata and Lacazette have combined for their clubs.

50 Comments

watch someone make this an anti-lukaku thread, instead of making fun of the others and just enjoy the striker and ourselves at least once or twice in a thread like this.
21 goals 6 assists, could and should do better. feed him, through balls, crosses whatever and he will score, also his linkup play is so much better than i ever imagined and he is not lazy as people said he would be. a workhorse. when he turns with the ball he is dangerous, but with the back towards the goal, he is much better to link up and drop the ball and then move. credit to that.

much to improve. A LOT. but a definit number 1 striker. for me he has 2-3 years to showcase he is worth the shirt and start deciding games even more. if he doesnt do this, the next one wil

He's good in the box and in space behind a defense,he's a goal poacher.As a lone striker to carry a line his overall skill set is lacking and with his back to the goal he's ave at best.He also struggles in big games but that could be more about the tactics that don't suit his game as much as anything else

Tywinn i'd say Rudd is close to being the best striker that played for Utd 95 g in 150 games.Plus his movement was also top quality and his hold up play was very good.It was also a time when Utd mainly played with 2 strikers and wingers
There's no doubt if Lukaku was in that kind of set up it would help him but my point is what Jose is asking him to do is not playing to his skill set and doesn't help the team.
Overall at this stage of his career Lukaku can't be compared to Rudd he has to improve every aspect of his game to reach that level

Bryan great footballer i think and Blind not fancied by Jose though.As Hendrix said Europe awaits I knew nd of fancy United.Why.
We have the best Goalkeeper in the world a few good players maybe great( not Pogba)sorry WAU.
But all joking aside Sir Alex had the team he thought would move ahead,there’s a few left from his time.Moyes[disaster out of his depth)LVG done ok,bored us to tears.
Mo it’s his way of doing it could be great.could be a disaster.Ill give him this he’s trying we are an impatient lot.But come on you Reds.

WAU for shits and giggles one thing I’m sure of is we both support United.
That’s established sorted.I have one question for you one you’ve never answered.Not that it matters,forgive my prying,where are you from?

Lukaku.. been an OK season for him.. excellent start but then the bubble burst.. (whatever the reason, Pogba, tactics e.t.c) don't think he has it in him to lead the line for united but yeah definitely better than morata and Lacazette.. looking back now, can't believe there was even a debate over who the better striker was!

Tywinn
RVN is way out of lukakus league.. better than him at literally everything.. maybe Lukaku is stronger but ruud wasn't weak or anything! Definitely the best finisher I've seen at united!

In this era I'm confident ruud would be up there with Ronaldo and Messi in terms of number of goals scored..

WAU born in the Wildeness raised by wolves Italian ok that’ll do.
Why the interest why not what the cloak?
We have all bared our stories happly what are you so secretive,we don’t judge here be kind please share.

Mark
Whoa, whoa. If you're feeling so generous mate i've got my info and other details on stand by man, just say the word. In recent memory, RVP set what a striker at United should be like. RVN was a beast but man he too needed "service". And that was all well and good when we were very much playing with wingers crossing and not just shit crosses either plus plenty of zip though it wasn't all crosses. Note i said crosses not long balls. Anyway with Ronaldo showing up on the scene SAF knew what had to done when it came to choosing between one of the two. I bet Jose would have chosen wrongly if he was in that position.

Honestly i'm Really not in the lets make fun of so so and so mood at the moment. Yay more goals than 2 players who have a grand sum total of 0 years experience playing in England

Mark
Ruud for me hands down.. always felt like he was going to score in every game he played..
Best finisher I've seen.. good with both feet.. excellent positioning and movement.. good control.. strong/fast enough.. had that winning mentality..

(For sure not the best 11 players to have played for Ferguson) but I'd love to have seen..

Lukaku and RVN are similar in terms of style but that's where it stops !!!!
RVN is the best finisher we've sent in the Premier League and I'm including Shearer that list!!!
Yes, RVN had the perfect support system and the perfect manager! Lukaku has a manager that believes in him yet doesn't play the football that suits him- strange one!
Old Gunnar and RVP come joint second for me! Cole, Yorke, Saha, Teddy, Eric, Dimitar or Wazza never impressed me as finishers. ! Eric, Teddy and Dimitar were technically the best! Again RVP could hold his own.

As far as Lacazette and Morata are concerned, Naturally Lukaku was the wiser buy for an immediate impact and considering his age, I'd expect him to improve too. Let's judge the other two from next season.
Lukaku must play higher up and we must be more attacking and more crosses would go a long way...
Harry Kane is everyone's favourite here but by God, Spurs play to his strength . They service the hell out of him! We cannot boast to do the same to Lukaku. Against Leicester and Burnley , Lukaku could have had a hat trick had the players done his runs and movement justice instead of being so selfish and inept!
How about we make it easy for him every once in while .. we freaking labour to victory every game and blame him for not scoring !!!!

Trevor what really got to me is teams like Rochdale are always battling financially to stay afloat,so to actually try and cheat them out of a financial lifeline after they'd battled so hard i found particularly distasteful

Just watched the game v Arsenal circa 1998 the ine where Keane had a go at Pat V.The game itself was amazing,Giggs,Ronald.Heinzs,Neville.Arsenal had Henry Bergkamp Vierera best player that day not Rooney,nor Beckham,Ronaldo or Keane Paul Scholes.

Can't do the treble now either, Delph will get suspended and so should Aguero, that's not the first time he's attacked a fan.Pep should get fined and the Club for fan violence.So all in all not a good day at the office for City.

Mark,
They won't win a fake treble.
They won't win the champions league.
They are not invinsible.
They will just be another run of the mill league winners +/- carabao cup, nothing that a Chelsea or Leicester has not done!

I'm hoping Barca and us end Conte's career this week, and then next year send Pep into another sabbatical till he joins PSG.

Great news on city getting knocked out.. i never thought for a second they'd win the real treble and get the champions league but I was anxious and concerned about them wiping the floor with teams domestically and getting a clean sweep..
League sewn up, dumped out of the fa cup.. let's hope arsenal do a job on them! Mkhitaryan can shine and we can all give credit to Jose for the sale and stopping city from getting a trophy! Oh I just realised whilst typing, maybe the lads cup tied?

Speaking of arsenal, I think Bryan asked the question.. it's spurs for me.. though it might change now.. aside from Liverpool and city the only teams I really dislike are the ones who are challenging us at the time.. so I didn't like arsenal for a long time and spurs were nothing so it wasn't difficult to like them if it makes any sense.. table seems to be turning however!

On topic. I don't think there is any doubt Lukaku has leaps to improve on. His first touch is very heavy and my impression is that he loses 90% of the longer balls high pumped to him from our defence. It looks weird but he is more of a Hernandez than a RvN. RvN always has the ball glued to him, high or low. There is just something off about Lukaku's positioning for high balls to him.

On City. They are by far the most deplorable club we have seen for a long long time. Yes we hate Liverpool, but together with Arsenal, there is just that tiny bit of respect in there. City is just a tin pot club in a fake position and they act like they mean something in world football. The sooner they go the way of Leeds, the better it is for everyone